New paper by @sarahkwalsh.bsky.social looking at phage-bacteria interactions across a diverse panel of 64 Staph isolates in an insect host model - "Detectable effects of bacterial phylogeny on virulence but not phage efficacy in an in vivo Galleria mellonella model" doi.org/10.1093/isme...

Detectable effects of bacterial phylogeny on virulence but not phage efficacy in an in vivo Galleria mellonella model

Abstract. Predicting the outcomes of bacteria–phage interactions is a central challenge in microbial ecology, particularly across heterogeneous host enviro

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🐛 With 2 weeks to go there is still time to secure one of the last few places for our Galleria Mellonella Workshop 2026: store.exeter.ac.uk/conferences-... Join us at the LSI in Exeter, UK for: 🎤 8th September: Research Day, including plenary lecture 🥼 9th September: Hands-on Laboratory Sessions

Another shot of yesterday's Galleria mellonella. I doubt I'd find it on a tree if I didn't know it was there. #teammoth

📢 The preliminary research day programme for the Galleria Mellonella Workshop 2026 is now available! 👉 Registration remains open until the 1st of September and we continue to welcome poster submissions until the 31st of August. 🧑‍💻Visit www.gmrcuk.org/gmw-2026.html for more info

🐛GMW2026 Update Due to popularity, we've released additional Full Programme places. These remain limited! Research Day places are still available, and we're keen to hear from anyone wishing to present. Any topic is welcome, provided it includes G. mellonella results. www.gmrcuk.org/gmw-2026.html

GMW 2026

We're pleased to announce that the 5th annual UK-based Galleria Mellonella Workshop will return in 2026 to Exeter, UK. GMW2026 will take place across the 8th and 9th of September 2026 at the Living...

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The fifth annual Galleria mellonella workshop returns with a two-day programme including a research seminar and hands-on laboratory sessions. Organised by @gmrc.bsky.social to support the use of Galleria as a partial replacement model. 📅 8 – 9 September 📍 Exeter, UK 👉 nc3rs.org.uk/events/galle...

Great to see registrations already coming in for #GMW2026, including poster submissions and attendees travelling from across Europe 🌍 We'd love to hear from anyone interested in giving a talk – provisional titles welcome! More info: www.gmrcuk.org/gmw-2026.html #GalleriaMellonella #Microbiology

GMW 2026

We're pleased to announce that the 5th annual UK-based Galleria Mellonella Workshop will return in 2026 to Exeter, UK. GMW2026 will take place across the 8th and 9th of September 2026 at the Living...

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🐛Registration for the Galleria Mellonella Workshop 2026 is now open!⭐ 📆When? 8th-9th September 2026 📍Where? Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter, UK 🎤Featuring a plenary lecture from Professor Kevin Kavanagh, Maynooth University, Ireland Sign up here: store.exeter.ac.uk/conferences-...

🐛Registration for the Galleria Mellonella Workshop 2026 is now open!⭐ 📆When? 8th-9th September 2026 📍Where? Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter, UK 🎤Featuring a plenary lecture from Professor Kevin Kavanagh, Maynooth University, Ireland Sign up here: store.exeter.ac.uk/conferences-...

🔬 We have an open post-doc position on nutritional immunology, funded by @ncn.gov.pl! 🙌 We study how fatty acids shape insect immune responses to fungal infections, using Galleria mellonella larvae as a model. 📅 Apply by 31.05.2026 to akaczmarek@miiz.waw.pl (subject: OpusLap) 👉 tinyurl.com/4babnhfp

The Mongue lab and Kawahara lab @dr-akito.bsky.social are hiring postdocs!! If you're interested in the genomics of extreme sexual dimorphism and/or silk production, come work on bagworms with us! See below for details: sicb.org/jobs-and-fel...

@gmrc.bsky.social has published its rearing manual online: nc3rs.org.uk/3rs-resource... Reviewed by the NC3Rs and other external experts, this resource supports consistent, reliable and reproducible insect husbandry and empowers institutions to adopt wax moth larvae as a partial replacement model.

Galleria mellonella rearing manual

Developed by the Galleria Mellonella Research Centre at the University of Exeter, to support consistent, reliable and reproducible insect husbandry.

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🐛 Happy New Year from GMRC 🐛 We’re pleased to be able to release our Galleria mellonella rearing manual (externally reviewed), now available on our website: www.gmrcuk.org/resources Interested in adopting this fantastic partial-replacement model organism? Get in touch! ✉️ gmrc@exeter.ac.uk #3Rs

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At GMRC, we are committed to enabling others to adopt this important partial-replacement model organism within their own institutions. We are therefore pleased to share our  Galleria mellonella...

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❗ Applications to a new PhD position within an NCN @ncn.gov.pl project (Opus 28+LAP) are now open ❗ 💡 The project, led by Dr Agata Kaczmarek, focuses on nutritional immunology and combines: 🧬 immunology 🦠 microbiology 🧪 molecular biology 🧉 metabolomics and lipidomics 🔗 tinyurl.com/4uynmj75

And it’s day one of #MothsOnTour with @gmrc.bsky.social at #BSI25!! If you’re moth curious, come chat to either me, @jenniesc.bsky.social or Prof Wakefield about the #Galleriamellonella 3Rs in vivo model and see what it’s all about with the wiggly 🐛🐛

Now published as version of record at @elife.bsky.social ! Layers of Immunity: Deconstructing the Drosophila effector response. The tools are now deposited in the VDRC (link ⬇️) elifesciences.org/articles/107... shop.vbc.ac.at/vdrc_store/d... #Drosophila #IDsky #SymbioSky #Infection #Immunology

Mark A. Hanson@hansonmark.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to finally announce this work which has been in the pipeline for 5 years: Layers of Immunity. Faustine et al. made a set of immune mutants covering 4 major immune modules in #Drosophila, deleting melanization (ROS), phagocytosis, and both Toll & Imd NF-kB responses. What did we find? 1/n 🧵

Check out my PhD student Fiona Facey’s first first-author paper on finding microbes that can degrade multiple types of plastics in the Galleria mellonella gut microbiome 👇 enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Characterising the Multiple‐Plastic Degrading Strain of Bacillus subtilis GM_03 From the Galleria mellonella Microbiome

A novel strain of Bacillus subtilis has been isolated from plastic-fed Galleria mellonella larvae, which shows evidence of degradation of both LDPE and PU plastics. Genes potentially associated with ....

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Our final talk is from @doktorbasti.bsky.social at @cam.ac.uk on the scalable imaging platform is developing to automate health and mortality scoring during microbial virulence assays #galleriamellonellaworkshop2025

hopefully galleria users can celebrate the end of hourly galleria poking sessions

Next a presentation from Toby Jenkins and Simon Booth from @uniofbath.bsky.social on their work using lasers to improve the Galleria burn wound infection model originally developed by @evgeniamaslova.bsky.social #galleriamellonellaworkshop2025

@cjcoates.bsky.social from @universityofgalway.bsky.social and @swanseauni.bsky.social gives us an overview on Galleria as an aspirant toxicology model for shellfish poisoning syndrome #galleriamellonellaworkshop2025

After the first break we have Prof Vitaliy Khutoryanskiy from PEVITAC @uniofreading.bsky.social on their advances in toxicological and antimicrobial testing using Galleria #galleriamellonellaworkshop2025

Next up is @jenniesc.bsky.social of @exeter.ac.uk / @gmrc.bsky.social giving an overview of the Galleria mellonella Research Centre activities! #galleriamellonellaworkshop2025

The 2025 Galleria mellonella Workshop is off to a start at Edge Hill University, with an opening talk on the Galleria Envenoming Model from @rachelhclare.bsky.social #galleriamellonellaworkshop2025

🚨 Last chance to register for GMW 2025 🚨 📆 15 Sept • Edge Hill Uni, UK 👩‍🔬 Host: Dr Rachel Clare Talks from Prof Khutoryanskiy, Dr Coates, Prof Jenkins & Simon Booth, Dr Bruchmann + practical training (rearing, injections, dissections). ⭐ FREE registration closes 1 Sept: shorturl.at/C5GWW

⭐The Full Schedule for the Galleria Mellonella Workshop 2025 is Live!🐛 🗓️ Date: 15th September 📍 Location: Edge Hill University 🔗 Register (free!) by the 29th August: shorturl.at/q6tXr 💬 Open to all researchers working with or curious about Galleria mellonella. #GMW2025 #GalleriaMellonella #3Rs

New transgenics loading — watch this space 🐛👀 #GalleriaMellonella #Transgenesis #Microinjection

🐛 Research-grade Galleria mellonella — hand-picked for researchers, BY researchers! Planning experiments for Sept/Oct? Get in touch now! ✅ In-house reared, no antimicrobial additives ✅ Hand-selected for quality ✅ +10% extra to cover in-transit loss ✅ Flexible shipping options 📩 gmrc@exeter.ac.uk

🧬 Does anyone know if the new amplifier sequences for HCR™ Gold RNA-FISH are available anywhere? Trying to track them down to plug into the code I have to generate probes in place of the old B1/B2... sequences. #HCR #MolecularBiology #RNAFISH #FISH

Join @royentsoc.bsky.social for Insects as Food and Feed 📅9th October 📍University of Roehampton www.royensoc.co.uk/event/iaff25/ Covering insect protein nutrition, formulation and the UK/EU landscape it's shaping up to be a fascinating day following #BSFCon in September🎉

Insects as Food and Feed (SIG) 2025 - Royal Entomological Society

Insects as Food and Feed: delivering sustainable protein to the food system Date: Thursday 9th October 2025 (09:15 – 16:30) Venue: Elm Grove Conference Centre, The University of Roehampton: Home – Roe...

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